This is my attempt to put together what I consider the “essentials” if you’re new to Ubuntu and/or don’t have time to scout around for all those things everyone is talking about but you haven’t got the faintest clue (like what the hell is “glxgears” and why is it *not* a benchmark and why you should still check those results!)
Quick and dirty:
EasyUbuntu 2.3 (for “breezy” a.k.a. 5.10):
Easy Ubuntu allow you to:
* Add extra repositories for installing a lot of additional software.
* Install multimedia codecs for reading all videos, musics and DVDs.
* Activate the “audio preview” feature in Nautilus.
* Install the most needed Firefox plugins: Flash, Java, Real, videos. Adds Microsoft fonts, GNOME’s Firefox buttons, officials Firefox icons.
* Install archiving support for RAR and ACE.
* Install the most used peer-to-peer softwares: aMule (a clone of eMule) and Azureus (for Bittorent).
* Install the Skype voice-over-IP software. (Warning: at this time Skype is not packaged for Breezy so install don’t work)
* MSN: Install AMSN cvs with webcam support.
* Num lock: Active the num lock at system startup.
* Replace the GNOME foot logo with Ubuntu’s logo.
* Install the NVIDIA or ATI driver for 3D support.
Ubuntu forums thread:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=64629
Home Page.
http://placelibre.ath.cx/keyes/index.php/2005/09/29/45-easy-ubuntu-23
Neverwinter Nights:
Linux support forum: http://nwn.bioware.com/forums/viewforum.html?forum=72
Follow instructions on how to make it run under linux.
Essentials:
nwnmouse (enables hardware mouse acceleration under linux)
http://home.woh.rr.com/nwmovies/nwmouse/
if you happen to have an ATI card and you find your memory usage going up and up and up to the point where your game starts getting very slow and/or nwn simply exits, you probably have a memory leak problem. Read this:
http://nwn.bioware.com/forums/viewtopic.html?topic=405580&forum=72
There’s an entire thread on ubuntuforums.com about glxgears ‘scores’ (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=39349)
On average, my ATI Radeon 9000 gets 2000 FPS with glx gears.
skyhorse@skybuntu:~$ glxgears -iacknowledgethatthistoolisnotabenchmark
10291 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2058.139 FPS
10262 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2052.398 FPS
10260 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2051.876 FPS
10220 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2043.961 FPS
